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Applying themes

Applying themes

From the course: Learning Excel 2016

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Applying themes

- One of the fastest and easiest ways to really change up the appearance of our worksheet and make it more visually appealing is to apply a theme. Now by default, there is a theme being used in the background here, certain colors, fonts, etcetera are being used in our default worksheet. But we can change that up and that's all a theme is, is a grouping of different colors, and fonts that go together well as well as special effects. So with our London Hotels Revenues sheet here that is using the default theme, and you can open up RH-Revenues0209 if you're skipping to this movie. Let's go to the page layout tab on the ribbon because over here in the theme's group, we can see a theme's drop down button. But also, if we only wanted to focus on the colors that are being used, the fonts or the effects, we have drop down buttons for those as well. When we go to themes, though, we'll be making use of all three of those in one easy step. So let's click the drop down for themes and as we scroll…

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